Feel free to make boob jokes, as long as you get to the heart of this story. CNN reported last year on the Denver-based charity “Free the Girls,” (pun intended), which had collected more than 20,000 bras to be donated to sex trafficking survivors to sell in the used clothing markets in Mozambique. Problem was, the group couldn’t afford to ship the bras to Africa.

Enter four individuals, including Denver housewife and former TV producer Kimba Langas, who together got the job done while educating the public about the ongoing issue. “Mozambique or Bust,” (more puns) a new CNN documentary narrated by Mira Sorvino, UNODC Goodwill Ambassador to Combat Human Trafficking, debuts Friday on CNN International and continues through Feb. 20. Strap in for another moving story of contagious goodwill. In-depth information is online at the CNN Freedom Project site.

Langas, (red-haired, fourth from left in photo) who previously worked for Hallmark Entertainment’s international channel, started her career at KUSA and worked at Citizen Pictures. “I did the producer thing for 20 years,” she said, while also a full-time mom. “Definitely those skills have transferred over (to launching a non-profit).”
The project started with three girls and a small amount of bras. Now it’s at 16 survivors in Mozambique, each selling an average 100-500 bras per month.

Next, “2013 is all about growth,” Langas said. She hopes to replicate the model in Uganda, Kenya, Mexico and El Salvador. In her view, current high school and college students are “so much more tuned in to social justice than my own generation. There’s more activism.” She reminds us “there are many ways to get involved, small and large.” (punning again?) Host a bra drive, become a sponsor/donor, apply for a grant.

Seriously??? Fighting sex trafficking by giving everyone a push up bra?? Quote from the trailer “The look on their faces makes everything worthwhile”. That look is ” WTF? Where is my food, medicine or replacement employment?” I am appalled.

Tigs

Jane…The bras are being donated to the sex trafficking survivors, helping them get back on their feets by providing them merchandise they can sell and make profit. How keep donating food can help them in the long run??
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he’ll eat forever”!

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.